{"id":223,"date":"2017-02-22T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T18:01:55","slug":"trump-claims-first-lady-not-born-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Trump Claims First Lady Not Born in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump says his administration has proof that the First Lady of the United States was not born in America and that she cannot produce a birth certificate proving she is a natural-born citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he first became suspicious when his wife celebrated her eighteenth 29<sup>th<\/sup> birthday and he asked her for some ID. &#8220;I mean, come on, our kid&#8217;s 10 years old and I married Melania after her fourth 29<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. Something&#8217;s up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Melania Trump refused to comment on the allegations that the First Lady was not born in the United States, saying, &#8220;Kaj je ta tip govori?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some legal scholars question whether Mrs. Trump actually needs to have been born in the United States to fulfill her role. &#8220;According to my reading of the U.S. Constitution, the First Lady of the United States only has to be a female with at least 130 pairs of shoes and the ability to smile blankly in public without looking at her watch,&#8221; said FOX News commentator and legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano.<\/p>\n<p>The latest accusation by the president follows a recent incident which saw the first lady temporarily <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/2017\/01\/melania-trump-banned-from-re-entering-u-s\/\"><em><strong>banned from re-entering the U.S. after a shopping trip to a Middle East countr<\/strong><\/em>y<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=washingtonweak\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump says his administration has proof that the First Lady of the United States was not [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[34,1],"tags":[51,50,44,49],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}